Advertising-toy



' (Model) I R. ALBRECHT.

' ADVERTISING TOY. I N04293B94- A I Patented Feb-12,1884.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ROBERT ALBRECHT, OF ONEIDA, NEW YORK.

ADVERTISING-TOY.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 293,394, dated February 12, 1884.

Application filed October 19, 1883.

(ModeL) movably hung on said neck, and a resonant shell or body hung on the free end of the string, thereby producing a novel, simple, and inexpensive musical toy.

The invention also consists in the combination, with a string arranged on a handle, as

aforesaid, of a resonant shell composed of telescopic sections which allow said shell to be distended or contracted, and thus to be adjusted to produce different sounds, all as hereinafter more fully described, and specifically set forth in the claims. The invention is fullyillustrated in the anneized drawings, wherein Figure 1 is a view of wooden stick of convenient size, having near one end a neck or groove, D, terminating with a head, H, as shown in Fig.4 of the drawings. The neck D is provided with a friction-surface, preferably formed of a coating of resin. On the neck thus prepared is looped or movably hung a string, E, which may consist 'of. any suitable material, such as silk, linen, or catguti To the free end of this string is connected a resonant shell or body, which in this case is represented in the form of two cylinders, A and B, fitted telescopically one within the other, said cylinders being composed of any suitablematerial rendering them resonant. The head of one of said cylinders is provided with perforations F, through which the free end of the string E passes and is secured in any suitable manner.

The described toy or instrument is operated I by swinging the handle 0 in a circle, so as to exert a centrifugal force on the resonant shell, which, by the loose connection of the loop G of the string on the neck of the'handle, is allowed to whirl about the handle. In this movement the rosined neck of the handle pro duces vibration of the string, and the transmission of said vibration to the resonantshell,

causes the latter to give forth a sound.

By applying to the aforesaid resonant shell 'loly on a rosi'ned handle, as shown, a resonant shell connected to the free end of said string,

and adapted to be distended or contracted to produce differentsounds, substantially as set ROBERT ALBRECHT.

Witnesses:

EMERALD F. J EWELL, Bnnwsrnn S. BROWN. 

